Mastering ArcGIS Enterprise Administration

Accessing the ArcGIS Server REST Administrator directory

Recall from earlier discussions that ArcGIS Server exposes its functionality through web services using REST. With this architecture comes the ArcGIS Server REST Application Programming Interface, or API, that, in addition to exposing ArcGIS Server services, exposes every administrative task that ArcGIS Server supports. In the API, ArcGIS Server administrative tasks are considered resources and are accessed through URLs (which are Uniform Resource Locators, after all). Operations act on these resources and update their information or state. Resources and their operations are hierarchical and standardized and have unique URLs. Like the web, the REST API is stateless, meaning that it ...